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Title: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: Andy on May 15, 2008, 11:29:30 Grampound Road would seem to be among the more unlikely candidates for a reopening but the following article reports on an aspiration to make it happen.
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144143&command=displayContent&sourceNode=144131&contentPK=20621812&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch Title: Re: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: Lee on May 15, 2008, 11:40:47 Quote from: Chris Jones "Our long-term goals include investigating such things as the viability of reinstating the railway station to help more commuters use the Penzance to Plymouth and London railway line. "To do so would be relatively cheap in terms of rebuilding platforms, shelters and a footbridge, but it could make a huge difference to the number of car journeys people make. Such projects may seem too big to contemplate, but this movement is about not waiting for the Government to do things for us, rather communities taking action themselves to make sure we are more resilient for the future." I suspect that a fair amount of frustration regarding the above beckons for them, but I wish them well. Title: Re: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: vacman on May 15, 2008, 19:07:30 Grampound road would actually be a fruitful station to reopen, the villiage has grown a lot in the past ten years and would make an ideal park and ride as its near the main St Austell-Truro road.
Title: Re: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: Lee on May 15, 2008, 19:27:17 Do you think there is a chance that FGW could officially back a re-opening proposal, vacman?
Title: Re: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: vacman on May 16, 2008, 12:01:20 Do you think there is a chance that FGW could officially back a re-opening proposal, vacman? I expect they would back any similar project if they weren't paying for it! But please, if this does happen NO HST's STOPPING THERE!!!!! it's slow enough in Cornwall already!Title: Re: Grampound Road, the next station stop? Post by: Andy on May 16, 2008, 14:56:31 It'd make a good park & ride stop on a Newquay-St Dennis-Burngullow Junction (west spur)-Truro-Penryn-Falmouth service. ;)
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